WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

Resource to Risk (and role)

It's Melbourne. Just remember to carry shorts/t-shirts and thermals and you'll be safe

Cloverfield wrote:I've hidden their identity. These guys, that do a hard job seem to think that they are something they aren’t

They work for Wilsons or not? Should they be carrying OC Spray if they do?

While I am not blinded by the 'hype as you call it, on a large bush fire, I daresay that you would appreciate the use of a DC-10 dropping water onto the fire front. It only takes roughly 8minutes to refil the water! I appreciate the fact that a) you don't need to land a helicopter to refill it and ...

Yes it can. The DC-10 supertanker was never designed to protect houses, its for asset control, those fires that are raging out of control and front line protection. It would have worked well in the recent Christmas Fire well. Houses are assets. Nor are you controlling the 'assets' you are protectin...

oh if my maths are right 250,00 could equal 1 house being lost how many homes did toodyay lose again about 38 x 250,00 = about 9.5 million hmmmm me thinks thats quite a bit in savings wouldnt mind that in my bank :wink: Oh so you're saying if they had that aircraft here, the Toodyay fire would've b...

Aerial appliances are an aid, they aren't a replacement for ground crews (in fact, they are worthless without ground crews).

This is why we have experts working for the fire agencies to make these sorts of decisions, not keyboard warriors

The Fire at Lancelin is a pretty big fire, when I saw it she was burning on 3 fronts. I am surprised that the DC-10 hasn't been called from over in Victoria. How would the DC-10 be of benefit? Its burning in coastal heathland and the round-trip to refill something like that would be a very long tim...

gkoutlis wrote:The incident above involving a aircraft going down towards Murray Field airport, turned out to be a malicious hoax..This information came 4rm a highly reliable source. Police investigating a Poi who activated EPIRB close by...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ... 832268.htm

[quote="WPXZBP"]Morrisson x Great Northern Highway[/quote]

Morrissey. Dont believe Quinns 3.4U has gone mobile yet.. LT1 had trouble getting through.

can see the Pyrocumulus from here.

Hey All. Just wondering what people are using for antennas on their Handheld radios? Looking for a replacement antenna for my VX7R.. so many to choose from. I guess the only thing I'm avoiding are telescopic antennas as they are way too easy to break. Prefer a dual-band antenna (2m/70cm). Seems to b...

lol. 2.5ha isn't large

Tyranus wrote:Nope but there was a strong smell on Lord street near harvey norman and at other points military road x Helena Valley Road depending on the wind...I was on a bike so it was a bit hard at times to tell which way the wind was blowing.

Haha, it always stinks around there